Allan Cole (1943–2019)

Wow... this was going to be a longer review but the final final sequence was so incredibly dumb in its attempts to be awesome, that i’m feeling a little drained.
Also there wasn’t a single action sequence in this entire thing (and there are a lot of them) that i was able to completely follow but a lot of the hand-to-hand stuff seemed utterly ridiculous.

This started off really well actually as a sort of dickensian, dystopian nightmare. I was hopes of at least 4-stars, but the changes of scene and supporting cast made it impossible for me to keep caring.
I had become utterly uninvested by the time we entered the final quarter.

This is an easy read, but its mostly trash in my opinion.… (mer)

The writing style, which was a little clunky throughout the trilogy, seemed worse in this one, and the pacing was a little weird. I wonder if this book just got less editing than the others, there were a bunch of typos and whole section where italics didn't end where they should have. Anyway, it was a little odd how much time was dedicated to incidental battles, then the reconciliation of various characters and the ending that the whole series was building up to were just breezed through like it was no big deal.… (mer)